avituses:
Drew some DS9 screenshots
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lorenzobane:
Julian Bashir is such a hilarious character conceptually. What if we took one of the most attractive men you’ve ever seen and give him a series of absolutely deranged character traits?
He’s got a foot fetish. He’s one of the most beautiful men alive, but TERRIBLE with women. He loves tennis but for some reason only plays racquetball. He’s got a teddy bear named Kukalaka. He’s a genetically augmented super genius and an absolute moron. He tried to skip rocks over a sentient puddle. His best friends on the station are 1.) a Cardassian super spy and assassin who wants to fuck him 2.) an emotionally repressed Irishman and 3.) a worm. When presented with aforementioned Cardassian spy the first thing he does is form a book club. He’s obsessed with LARPing. He has a spy kink. He’s physically incapable of shutting the fuck up. Every time he tries to go to an academic conference he gets kidnapped. His job at DS9 is his first fucking job out of college.
Like sir…. what?
This Enterprise rewatch is making me appreciate a lot the show, despite the failings and the stumbles, I feel like they were trying something, and I’m feeling a lot for the characters this time around, like
This time I actually feel very sorry for Archer? I think that despite the rough edges and the dumbassery, Archer is a very idealistic person, often to the point of naivety - often to the point of, quite frankly, foolishness.
Archer genuinely wanted to be an explorer, to honor his father’s lifework and to put humanity out there as peaceful explorers of the universe, and despite the mistakes along the way I think he showed it often that he had the heart (eh) in the right place.
And then the Xindi arc cames and the man gets destroyed. He goes from goofy captain who takes his dog in diplomatic missions and wants to befriend all his subordinates to hardened man with (quite literally) the weight of the world in his shoulders, commiting horrible actions on the way. By the time of Azati Prime, he is all but ready to commit suicide, and I don’t think he would ever fully forgive himself for the truly horrid thing he does with that innocent crew in Damage.
The direct comparition in the Trek universe I could make is with Sisko, but it doesn’t feel quite right because when we meet Sisko, we’re meeting him as a hardened man, as he loses his wife amid battle, so we meet him as he’s losing this innocence and becoming a man who knows grief and hardship quite well.
No, I think I feel more temped to compare Archer to Bashir - Bashir, who comes to the station wide-eyed and full of enthusiasm, talking about “frontier medicine” and “wilderness” without an once of tact, who gets a little more quiet, a little more taciturn and worn down as the Dominion war gets worse.
“Funny, I joined Starfleet to save lives”, Bashir sadly points out in Siege of AR-558 as he powers his weapon to hit the enemy. “Enterprise was designed to be a ship of exploration”, Archer wrily answers Degra in The Forgotten when he shows surprise that Enterprise had such detailed scans for a military vessel, like he still can’t believe this was what his mission has turned into. Two idealistic, cocky wide-eyed men, both hardened and worn down by their wars; two sides of the same coin.
petitpotato:
I love the whole DS9 crew so much!
bisexualamy:
It appears I have underestimated the Founders. I should have seen it coming. There was a time when nothing got past me. You remember, don’t you, Elim?
